In case you haven't been reading Twitterat all in the past day or so, last night "Banksy" was both the sixth search term on Google Trends and the number six trending topic on Twitter (where it remains to this morning), all because of the elusive street artist's unbelievably dark and meta storyboarding of the animated series' infamous intro, which Fox just removed from YouTube for copyright violations.

Update:Rupert Murdoch underlingPeter Kafkapoints out in the comments that the clip is now available on Hulu and its viral effect would have been the same if people had waited to see it there 12 hours after the show aired. "Nah. If this thing didn't get onto YouTube last night, then the entire scenario still would have played out the same way. It just would have been 12 hours or so later, when the clip showed up -- legally -- on Hulu. That's kind of the point of Hulu, really: That Fox, NBC, etc can get the viral benefits of a Banksy clip, or Lazy Sunday, without having to cede distribution (and possible monetization) to Google or somebody else. And it sort of works."